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Old 01-28-2020, 01:05 PM   #85
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Originally Posted by Argon View Post
Wow, thanks so much! That's very interesting. I may remove that margin before reading AFUtD, then. Why do publishers add strange formatting like that? Wouldn't it be in their interest to let readers adjust the Kindle margin themselves?
I think they do it like that because of the way ADE used to work. ADE used to have a page number on the right and you needed a margin of some size to not overwrite the page number. That was a forced page number. Now that that's not an issue, they still don't adjust for the last of the page number. Another reason they may still do it is because Amazon uses such large margins.

I agree that there are some things that need to be left at default such as L/R margins, base font size, and line-height. But they don't so I go in to fix the mess they make. And the chapter headings are (in most cases) a waste of screen space.
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